Faneros Research

Original Research

Data-driven analysis of AI visibility, generative engine optimization, and the technical infrastructure that determines which brands AI platforms recommend.

April 2026 · 12 min read

We Audited 10 Law Firms Across 7 AI Platforms. Technical Infrastructure Beat Courtroom Prestige Every Time.

The #1 lawyer in Illinois for 15 consecutive years received 13 AI mentions. A mid-tier competitor with better technical infrastructure got 31. Full dataset, correlations, and the E-E-A-T vs. Machine Readability framework.

Original Data · 10 Firms · 7 Platforms · 119 Responses
April 2026 · 8 min read

OpenAI Crawls llms.txt Every 15 Minutes. ChatGPT Says It Doesn't Matter.

Every major AI platform publishes llms.txt on their own website. Their bots actively crawl yours. But ask them if it works, and they'll tell you it's unproven. We ran the data. It's not unproven.

Investigation · Server Logs · 2.1× Correlation